Deuteronomy 18:13
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 18:13 in other translations
| BSB | You must be blameless before the LORD your God. |
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| WEB | You shall be blameless with the LORD your God. |
| ASV | Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God. |
| YLT | Perfect thou art with Jehovah thy God, |
| DARBY | Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God. |
| BBE | You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God. |
| Webster | Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. |
What does Deuteronomy 18:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 18:9-14
De 18:9-14. The Abominations of the Nations Are to Be Avoided. 9-14. thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations--(See on Le 18:21; Le 19:26; Le 19:31; Le 20:4). In spite of this express command, the people of Canaan, especially the Philistines, were a constant snare and stumbling block to the Israelites, on account of their divinations and superstitious practices.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 18:9-14
Was it possible that a people so blessed with Divine institutions, should ever be in any danger of making those their teachers whom God had made their captives? They were in danger; therefore, after many like cautions, they are charged not to do after the abominations of the nations of Canaan. All reckoning of lucky or unlucky days, all charms for diseases, all amulets or spells to prevent evil, fortune-telling, &c…
Deuteronomy 18:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 18:13
- Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
- Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
- Job 1:8
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
- Revelation 3:2
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 18:12
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
- Deuteronomy 18:13
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 18:14
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Deuteronomy 18:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Perfecto serás con Jehová tu Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu seras parfait avec l’ Éternel, ton Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du sollst vollkommen sein gegen Jehova, deinen Gott. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Perfectus eris, et absque macula cum Domino Deo tuo. |